A Rediscovered Tracing by Villard de Honnecourt
1977; College Art Association; Volume: 59; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00043079.1977.10787437
ISSN1559-6478
Autores ResumoWithin the large body of preserved designs, contracts, budget reports, consultants' memoranda, and other documents contemporary with Gothic construction, the most intriguing are the tracing floors. Owing to their practical and temporary character, most of them have either vanished or been reported as lost. A case in point is the rediscovery of a “destroyed” thirteenth-century wall tracing in the first north chapel in the ambulatory of the collegiate church of St. Quentin (Fig. 3).1 The tracing was somewhat inaccurately published by Paul Bénard in 1867. In 1925 H. Deneux considered it lost, and even Pierre Héliot in his volume on St. Quentin of 1967 refers to it as having existed “in the last century.” Having assumed its disappearance, both he and Robert Branner were unable to evaluate its significance in regard to the possible presence of Villard de Honnecourt during the construction of the choir, a theory that Bénard had developed and Hahnloser strongly defended.2
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